SJT and Poetry Friday: Week 39

Thanks to Leigh Anne Eck for hosting Spiritual Journey Thursday and Tabatha Yeatts for stepping in to host Poetry Friday.
The theme of SJT is change/transformation. Autumn is such a great time for this theme,  Days are getting shorter, leaves are changing, and the mornings have a crispness to them. The sky even seems bluer.  I am returning to SJT and Poetry Friday after being gone for about six weeks.  As it often happens, while taking a rest, a break is good, returning always feels like a change, a groggy, sloggy return.  Can I still write? Are there poems that eke out onto the page? What I planned to do while in Japan: sit, sketch, and write, didn't really happen.  I was acclimating to heat and humidity, figuring out the trains and subways, and monitoring the impending typhoon.  

What calls to me is this quote :The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tse

This is where I am. Taking that first step. Reaching out to my writing pals. Last Saturday, I was in an hour long writing session. I found Georgia Heard's Write Bites class to engage myself. Re-dedicating myself to reading the Two Sylvias Muse weekly newsletter.
Last week, I also took another step in the area of returning to the practice of yoga. 

In Poetry Friday news, I was pleased to return home I early September and find my Haiku Society of America's  (HSA)members' anthology.  I have a haiku in this journal.

Last May, I witnessed the aurora borealis and was so taken by the experience,  I wrote this:
sky ribbons flutter
I inhale
aurora borealis

If you were gifted the experience you know,